A panel discussion titled "After the Summit: The Role of Human Rights in U.S.-China Relations" will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2:30-5 p.m. in the Law School's Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. The discussion, which is free and open to the public, will address the issues of human rights policy and constructive engagement with the People's Republic of China in the wake of Chinese Premier Jiang Ze Min's visit to the United States in late October.
Sponsored by the Law School's Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, the panel discussion is part of two days of events that have been organized to mark the establishment of the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowships in International Human Rights, a program that will provide annual stipends to recent Law School graduates who plan to pursue projects devoted to the advancement of human rights around the world. The fellowships are named in honor of Robert Bernstein, the international human rights activist and former chair, president and chief executive officer of Random House, Inc., who founded and now chairs Human Rights Watch.
Professor Harold Hongju Koh, director of the Schell Center, will moderate the discussion. The panel will feature one of the student leaders at Tiananmen Square, a former Chinese prisoner and several current and former federal officials, including School of Management Dean Jeffrey E. Garten, former U.S. undersecretary of commerce for international trade.
As background for the panel discussion, the film "The Gate of Heavenly Peace," a documentary of the 1989 Chinese protest movement that climaxed with the Beijing massacre of June 4, will be screened on Monday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. This will be followed by a short discussion with one of the film's coproducers, Orville Schell III, dean of the School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, who is also one of the panelists. This event, too, is free and open to the public.